Directed by:
Rigoberto CastañedaScreenplay:
Ed DoughertyCinematography:
Alejandro MartínezCast:
Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Katie Stuart, Armie Hammer, Kate Jennings Grant, Michael B. Jordan, Claudia Bassols, John Solo, Prodigy, Andrew Tarbet (more)Plots(1)
Three residents of the same apartment block find themselves trapped in the building's stalled lift; however, all of them have somewhere urgent to go - to the bed of a dying grandmother, to a fiancée who's waiting to elope and back to a flat that needs to be cleaned of a dirty secret before anyone else comes home. What first seems an inconvenience soon turns in to a nightmare when no one answers their calls, their meagre water supply runs out and one of them goes a bit crazy under the pressure. (High Fliers Films)
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I was quite curious about what story the creators could concoct from such a weak and empty premise; whether it would be something original or they would do something that basically anyone could come up with (B is the right answer, one of the three prisoners is a jerk). In the hands of a good director and screenwriter, this could have been an pretty interesting film, but the opposite is true and Blackout is not worth much. That nerve-wrecking fight for survival the distributor officially speaks about takes place in the last half hour and consists of a boring conversation and about two interesting action scenes. There are many better films about imprisoned people (Saw, Cube), avoid this one. ()
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